About Cherry has a simple story, girl grows up in family were the mother is an alcoholic so she needs to go away, to run from home. She has a boyfriend who introduces her to quit her job at a laundry and go for a photo shoot. What she doesn't know is that the shoot will be used to be put online but it pays well so she agrees. But with her beautiful body she needs the money and knows that it earns the green colour easily so she moves to San Fran and before she can say a thing she moves from a girl online to a porn set. What this flick is trying to show is how easily you are tricked by a stupid photoshoot to a set were you have to proof you have other abilities. being written with an actual porn star this should show you how the business works and how you are fooled by the porn industry but some things doesn't work. What it shows is that you can have lots of money a day by doing lesbian things. of course a man-woman situation pays more so our girl here do moves to that part. What this flick had to show is that once you are into the porn industry you can't leave it that easy.I came across this flick due James Franco being in it but he isn't in it that long and his character doesn't work at all. He's a big spender who falls in love with the girl and gives her expensive clothes and drugs. that's all. Be advised that this flick has a lot of nudity and especially from Ashley Hinshaw who plays Angelina or once a porn star Cherry. For me the decay that should be seen from Cherry isn't there, she's doing it all with a big smile, leaving friends and family behind, going for the money and having a lesbian relation with her boss...Gore 0/5 Nudity 3/5 Effects 0/5 Story 2,5/5 Comedy 0/5

I agree with other reviewers when they say this film is unrealistic. Not in the sense that it doesn't portray the sex industry correctly (I'm not qualified to make a judgment) but in the sense that many of the events that occur and the reasons that drive our protagonist into the porn industry are not hard hitting enough. For instance, at the start we see Cherry with her boyfriend, who compliments her beauty and suggests she takes professional pictures (so everyone can see her 'beauty'). This scene ignites her willingness later to enter the porn industry. I think the movie would have been better if they added a bit more darkness into the movie. I get that this film aims to challenge our perception of working girls, by showing us not all female sex workers are manipulated or forced into the porn industry against their will. But there was room for the film to delve more deeper into the psychological, social or environmental issues that may have influenced her decision or motivated any of the other 1 dimensional characters in the movie. As opposed to watching her hanging out in a strip-club, touching herself up in front of a camera, hooking up with a wealthy drug addict, dumping her best friend, shacking up with a lesbian colleague and ending up the other side of the camera. The End. That is not a movie, that's 102mins out of our lives that we will NEVER get back! In a nutshell, this is a movie about how a young women, sleeps her way to the top by becoming a Lesbian.Massive disappointment!

This is a slightly interesting film that moves very deliberately and not much happens.It is primarily the story of an 18-yr-old L.A. area girl that takes off to San Francisco to make her path in life. What does an attractive girl with no particular skill do for money? This one found her way into the porn industry, starting with girl-on-girl and eventually to girl-guy stuff, and eventually to the producer who screens new talent.Ashley Hinshaw, who was probably 22, is Angelina, and when she gets into the adult film roles calls herself 'Cherry.' She travels there with her good friend, Dev Patel as Andrew, who views her as his ideal girl, but that romance was never to be. She meets a guy who claims to be an attorney, but we never see him practicing law, and seems to always be high. He is her boyfriend but when he tells her that her profession disgusts her there isn't much left. He is played by James Franco as Frances.I had put this movie on my list a couple of years ago when I noted that Heather Graham is in it, but here she just plays one of the porn producers who is in an 8-year lesbian relationship. This movie earns its 'R' rating with language and some nudity and some simulated sex, but overall pretty tame for the subject. Several of the actresses are actually in the porn film business.And interesting movie, it probably portrays that industry fairly accurately, and how pretty young girls with no particular direction in life get into the business. But it is just interesting and its rating is about right.SPOILERS: In the end when her guy friends don't pan out she becomes the new partner of Heather Graham's character. True love is not depicted, I got the impression it was more a relationship of convenience and, when you spend your time 'at work' in bed with guys, you don't really need one at home also.

" . . . disgust me." James Franco, as "cokehead" trial lawyer Francis, 18-year-old title porn starlet "Cherry's" (nee Angelina) short-term sugar daddy, seems out-of-character in his kiss-off remarks to her, and certainly not very WWCD (that is, What Would Charlie Sheen Do). This feature debut of writer\director Stephen Elliott is not marked by any particular strengths in its characterizations. Like most direct-to-video flicks featuring DVD covers that will pass the "sniff test" in "family" video stores while suggesting young female nudity, the actual amount of sex and birthday suits displayed in the movie itself is liable to leave the renter feeling ripped-off (even it he or she has waited until this title made its way to the two-for-a-dollar section of the store). Lacking the weight of a TV "after school special," this effort at "sexploitation" concludes with a moral along the lines of "every nice girl should do at least one porno to sow her wild oats, but then get behind the camera before the next big AIDS scare comes along." If the intention here is to make sex boring, ABOUT CHERRY succeeds nicely.